Using WEFT

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Posted by: orange123456
         
Hi,
I just downloaded and installed WEFT, but I'm a little confused by the wizard/tutorial.  It seems to imply that it's going to scan the pages of my web site and embed code into each page so that each page can be used with the embedded font.  I realized I can tell it not to alter the pages on my web server, but how can I get it to generate the eot file I need to link to from my external CSS file?

I control the font-family of all of my web pages with my external CSS file.  All of the fonts, except for one, I use are core fonts (and secondary fonts) for which I do NOT want embedded font objects.  However, my first font in my font-family list is a special font and I need to embed that font through my CSS file.

The font is Optima and I have 4 .OTF files for this font.  OTF is Open Type, so I assume there shouldn't be any problem with permissions when generating the eot file.

I have uploaded the 4 OTF files to my web server; I also uploaded a test html page which had a font setting of Optima, then ran WEFT and selected only that page for it to analyze.  Unfortunately, it returned a red circle for the Optima font.  How can I get it to recognize the 4 Optima font files I have?  All I need is the EOT file so I can put it on my web server and link to it from my CSS file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Posted by: just4answers4
         
01) Start WEFT
02) Press 'Wizard'
03) Enter your root web address
04) Check 'Skip analysis'
05) Under Subsetting choose: '7. No subsetting'
05) Hit 'Add...'
06) Select your installed font, style and hit 'OK'
07) Hit the down arrow next to 'http://' and choose 'file://'
08) Hit '...' and select where you want to save the .oet font file
09) Add all of the roots you need to the List
10) Make '...relative URLs' and 'Show CSS' checked keep 'Skip" unchecked
11) Copy the CSS to notepad, hit close
12) Check off 'Do not upload'
13) Next
14) Hit finish
15) Open notepad with the CSS you just got
16) Fix the src: url path so it's (../FONTFILENAME.eot)
17) Upload the OET to your server in the same directoy as the page
18)Add the CSS to the page or file
19) Bob's your uncle

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